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Deep into Rabbit Trap, the directorial debut of Bryn Chainey, a character mentions that “with your eyes you enter the world. With your ears, the world enters you.” While sound has always been ...
If you were to watch the first 10 to 15 minutes of “Rabbit Trap,” the fundamentally flawed feature debut of writer/director Bryn Chainey, and stop there, you might think you were witnessing ...
“Rabbit Trap” is a bizarre, abstract, Lovecraftian take on the new-person-seems-nice-but-is-actually-crazy horror subgenre. The film has drawn apt comparisons to “Saltburn,” especially ...
What's the difference between folk horror and cosmic horror? Those two particular subgenres of horror films are a bit of a ...
One of this year’s offerings — the U.K.-shot Rabbit Trap, written and directed by Bryn Chainey — did that a little too successfully for some. Drawing on ancient folklore, fables and myths ...
Among another impressive stack of new horror titles looking to spook audiences at this year’s Sundance, “Rabbit Trap” joins a growing library of psychological folk horrors that have recently ...
Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen as Darcy and Daphne, an influential musical couple from London who retreats to an isolated cabin in the Welsh countryside to finish their ...
The actor stars as a curious sound recordist in an initially suggestive but ultimately too straightforward film, which marks the feature debut for director Bryn Chainey. In the Welsh folk-horror ...
“With your ears, the world enters you.” So begins Bryn Chainey’s “Rabbit Trap,” a vague but effectively unsettling slice of trip-folk horror about what happens when the world refuses to leav ...
What it ideally shouldn’t be is boring. Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap has a creepy sense of dread, striking images of invasive nature and an intriguing baseline about the otherworldly properties ...